Quotes By Samuel Johnson

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Language is the dress of thought.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.